Tongue-truck for binders.



PATENTED JAN. 31, 1905. A. SEITZ.

TONGUE TRUCK FOR BINDERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 1904.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY I7, 1904.

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Int/entry)" UNITED STAT S Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALVAH SEITZ, 'o-F. ANsoN. KANSAS.

TONGUE-TRUCK FOR BINDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,027, dated January31, 1905. Application filed May 17,1904. Serial No. 208,371.

of the United States of America, residing at together.

Anson, in the county of Sumner and-State of Kansas, have invented newand useful Improvements in Tongue-Trucks for Binders, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to a two-wheel tonguetruck for grain-binders, thepurposes'of such trucks being to relieve the horses from the weight ofthe binder-tongue, as well as to relieve them from the vibrations andside draft thereof.

The object is to provide such a device in.

which the long tongue is free from the vertical motions of the truck byreason of irregularities of the path over which the wheels pass, as wellas to improve upon draft-equalizer; and-this object is accomplishedmainly by securing the long tongue to the short tongue and truck, sothat the long tongue is free from both short tongue and truck in itsvertical movement, so that the truck-wheels are free both from the longtongue and the short tongue as to vertical movement, and so that thelong tongue and truck are permanently fixed together as to horizontalmotion, further details appearing hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination, arrangement, anddisposition of the parts, the preferred form of the embodiment whereofis set forth in this specification and shown in the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure l is aplan View intended to show more particularly the draft-equalizer. Figs.2 and 3 are details of the pivots at 2 2 and 3 3, respectively, in Figs.4., 5, and 6, which latter figures are intended to show moreparticularly the truck and its connections, the equ alizer beingremoved. Fig. 4 is a side view, the near wheel and a portion of the axlebeing cutaway as through the line 4 4., Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a front view,the long tongue being shown in section; and Fig. 6 is a vertical sectionthrough the line 6 6, Fig. 4, illustratingthe.

manner of securing the truck and connections Fig. 1 is drawn to asomewhat smaller scale than the remaining figures.

Like letters of reference indicate like or or any suitable means.

. E is the cross-arm of the equalizer, pivoted to the short tongue at c.The four-horse doubletree F is secured to one end of the crossarm. Thetwo-horse doubletrees ff are secured to the fourhorse doubletree, andthese carry the swingletrees g g in the usual manner.

G is a beam extending from the otherend of the equalizer cross-arm E tothe opposite sideof the tongue B, where it bears against the corner ofthe binder-frame by a bracket Now it will be observed that the draft ison the pivot e and short tongue and that the back pressure on the beam Gtends to force the sickle side of the binder forward, thereby equalizingthe sidedraft caused by reason of the lateral extension of the sicklewithout driving the draftanimals onto the growing grain.

At the middle of the axle D is a semicircular enlargement I, to thecenter of which is pivcured to the standard by set-screw 12, and havingthe lateral pintles O O on which are pivoted the bars P P, which arebolted to opposite sides of the long tongue C, whereby the said longtongue is free to move thereon vertically, but whereby the tongue willcarry the axle with it when moving horizontally. The upper end of thestandard bears against the plate Q, secured to the short tongue, orrather the outer end of the long tongue rests on the upper end of thestandard, the plate Q being used to prevent the wearing of the wood. Thecollar R is secured to the upper end of the standard by the set-screw a,and the upper end of the standard is held in place by the brace S,through which it extends rotatably. The several pieces at the outer endof the short tongue are held together by means of the bolts 0 and s, asshown in the drawings.

The foregoing arrangement is obviously simple and economic inconstruction and may readily be assembled. The short tongue is carriedon the truck, and all the weight and side strain is taken up and bornethereby. As the truck passes over irregular ground the wheels are freeto move vertically on the bolt K, but are controlled as to horizontalmotion by the long tongue C by reason of without departing from thespirit of the invention.

What I claim is 1. The combination with the short tongue and thetwo-wheel truck comprising the wheels and the axle, of the standardpivoted to the short tongue and axle so as to rotate horizontally butnot moving vertically with relation to the short tongue and so that thewheels may move vertically but not horizontally with relation to thestandard, and the long tongue tongues and the two wheels and axle of theA truck, of the vertically-disposed standard pivoted to the axle so asto permit vertical movement thereof, and the collars and braces forsecuring the standard rotatably in fixed ver-- tical relation to theshort tongue and for securing the long tongue in lixed horizontal andmovable vertical relation to the standard; substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the short and long tongues and the two wheelsand axle of the truck, of the slotted standard pivoted to the axle bythe horizontally and longitudinally disposed bolt K, the bearing-plate Qsecured to the outer end of the short tongue and resting on the upperend of the standard, the collar R secured to the upper end of thestandard, the collar N secured to the standard and having thelaterally-extending pintles whereby the long tongue may be hingedthereto, and the braces secured to the short tongue for holding thestandard securely and rotatably in fixed vertical relation to the shorttongue; substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presenceof witnesses.

ALVAH SElT'J.

WVitnesses:

J. H; MYERS,

W. R. SHOUSH.

